[175] Properly speaking group marriage should mean that all persons in a local group live in polygamy, a state not far removed indeed from promiscuity, the boundary between which and polygamy I cannot undertake to discuss here, or else that the whole of one group is united in marriage to those of the opposite sex in another group.
[176] This is uncertain, as I have already intimated.
[177] This tells strongly in favour of my theory. The unmarried youth gets his pirrauru free, for he will reciprocate the attention later. The man who has lost his wife and can make no return purchases the right.
[178] Cf. Curr, III, 546.
[179] Cf. Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 73.
[180] Journ. Anthr. Inst. XX, 56.
CHAPTER XIV.
TEMPORARY UNIONS.